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JULY 6, 2010

States covered by the proposed Transport Rule. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing regulations employing the “good neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act to reduce interstate transport of upwind state emissions from power generation that contribute to air quality problems in downwind states. Click to enlarge.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

Freight transportation is a pillar of the US national economy, but while long-haul trucks account for less than 6% of the vehicle miles traveled over US highways, they account for about 40% of the emissions of air polluting particulate matter and about 55% of nitrogen oxides, the precursor to ozone in the atmosphere, the study said.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

These findings suggest that policymakers should target further emissions reductions from such sectors, particularly in transportation and agriculture. GED was calculated for the 3 most recent NEI years: 2008, 2011, and 2014. Second, the analysis tracks damages by economic sector over 3 NEI years, 2008, 2011, and 2014.

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AUGUST 28, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has designated the five-county Philadelphia region of Bucks, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties as non-attainment for ozone and fine particulate matter air quality standards. Jennings Transportation Corp.:

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DECEMBER 21, 2013

Increased use of natural gas as a transportation fuel diversifies Colorado’s portfolio, supports locally produced energy, improves air quality and can save money through lower fuel costs. These funds are critical to support installation of compressed natural gas fueling stations along the state’s major transportation corridors.

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JULY 11, 2013

Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential (kg Ethene equivalent).

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JUNE 29, 2011

The US Department of Transportation will award up to total of $101.4 The money is being provided competitively through the Federal Transit Administration’s Fiscal Year 2011 Sustainability Initiative, which includes funding from two programs: $51.5 million from FTA’s Clean Fuels Grant Program and $49.9

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The update identifies eight key sectors for ongoing action: Energy; Transportation, fuels, land use and infrastructure; Agriculture; Water; Waste management; Natural lands; Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (such as methane and black carbon); and Green Buildings. Transportation. Background.

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DECEMBER 25, 2011

The FY 2011-2012 plan focused primarily on five areas of interest: sustainable communities; behavior and technology adoption; health and air pollution exposures; air pollution science; and greenhouse gas targets. The deadline to submit research concepts is 31 January 2012.

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APRIL 21, 2011

On a per-storage basis, the team found that the NiMH technology was found to have the highest environmental impact, followed by NCM and then LFP, for all categories considered except ozone depletion potential. They also found higher life cycle global warming emissions than have been previously reported. —Majeau-Bettez et al.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

Selin and colleagues compared the health benefits to the economic costs of three climate policies: a clean-energy standard, a transportation policy, and a cap-and-trade program. The researchers found that savings from avoided health problems could recoup 26% of the cost to implement a transportation policy, but up to to 10.5

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FEBRUARY 5, 2015

MARPOL Annex VI sets limits on NO x and SO x emissions from ship exhaust, and prohibits deliberate emissions of ozone-depleting substances. If container vessel diversion is included, low-growth scenario emissions would increase by 200 to 300 percent above 2011 levels, assuming continued use of heavy fuel oil (HFO) and marine diesel oil (MDO).

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MAY 8, 2011

Major sources of combustion-related emissions in urban areas are transportation, power generation, and industrial processes. It is also a precursor to the formation of ground-level ozone and particulate matter, and as a cause of acid rain. Marshall (2011) Effects of Income and Urban Form on Urban NO 2 : Global Evidence from Satellites.

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MAY 2, 2016

Regulatory regimes seeking to reduce emissions from transport have largely focused on tailpipe emissions—i.e., reported in their paper on a policy workshop convened in 2011 on the relevance of traffic-related wear emissions for air quality policy development, with the focus on non-exhaust PM emissions. earlier post ). Background.

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JULY 8, 2014

Between 2000 and 2011, the number of producing gas wells in the US increased by 50%, reaching 514,637. processing, transport, end-use) as conventional natural gas, and the atmospheric impacts are indistinguishable between the two forms. Once out of the ground, however, unconventional natural gas is subject to the same fate (e.g.,

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AUGUST 29, 2011

These results were compared with observations of ozone, CO, formaldehyde, BC, and PM 10 from a few well observed urban areas, and in most of the cases, the output distributions were found to be within ranges of the observations. Prinn (2011) Development of a fast, urban chemistry metamodel for inclusion in global models. Cohen, J.B.,

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

researching, validating, and deploying technologies and methods that save fuel through more efficient operations of trucks and transportation systems. California’s and, potentially, EPA’s move toward further heavy-duty NO x reductions to meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone will be critical.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Life cycle analyses of biobased, ground transportation fuels assume that the emissions from fuel combustion are equal and opposite to the emissions absorbed from the atmosphere during growth of the feedstock. In the months following a pulse of NO x in the upper atmosphere, ozone production is stimulated causing a short-term warming.

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